...[a knowledge of] who we were, what we became, where we were, whereinto we
have been thrown, whereto we speed, wherefrom we are redeemed, what birth
is, and what rebirth is..." (att. to Theodotos)

Learn who it is within you, who makes everything his own and says "my
god, my mind, my thought, my soul, my body..."

...there is in everyone [divine power] existing in a latent condition...This
is one power divided above and below, generating itself, making itself grow,
seeking itself, finding itself, being mother of itself, father of itself,
sister of itself, spouse of itself, daughter of itself, son of
itself---mother, father, unity, being a source of the entire circle of
existence. The Great Announcement

...[She is]...the image of the invisible, virginal, perfect spirit...She
became the Mother of everything, for she existed before them all, the
motherfather...The Secret Book

....from the nine Muses, one separated away. She came to a high
mountain and spent time seated there, so that she desired herself alone in
order to become androgenous. She fulfilled her desire and became pregnant
with her desire. Apocalyse of Adam

....Desiring to conceive by herself [apart from her male counterpart] Wisdom
became the great creative power from whom all things originate, often called
Eve, Mother of the Living. But since her desire violated the harmonious
union of opposites, what she produced was aborted and defective, and so
originated the terror and grief which mars human existence. Att. toValentinus

I am androgynous. [I am both Mother] and Father, since [I copulate]
with myself...[and with those who love] me...I am the Womb [that gives shape]
to All...I am Me[iorth]ea, the glorty of the Mother. Trimorphic
Protennoia

I am the first and the last. I am the honored one and the scorned
one. I am the whore, and the holy one. I am the wife and the
virgin.. I am the mother and the daughter...I am she whose wedding is great,
and I have not taken a husband...I am knowledge, and ignorance...I am
shameless, I am ashamed. I am strength, and I am fear...I am foolish, and
I am wise;...I am godless, and I am one whose God is great. Thunder, Perfect
Mind

[The creator]. becoming arrogant in spirit, boasted himself over all those
things that were below him, and exclaimed, "I am father, and God, and
above me there is no one." But his mother, hearing him speak thus,
cried out against him, "DO no lie, Ialdabaoth..."(quoted by Irenaeus
AH 1.30.6)

Grant Paradise to be the womb; for Scripture teaches us that this is a true
assumption when it says, "I am He that formed thee in they mother's
womb" (Is. 44:2)...Moses...using allegory had declared Paradise to be the
womb...and Eden, the placenta... (att. to Simon Magus)

...heaven and earth have a shape similar to the womb...and if...anyone wants
to investigate this, let him carefully examine the pregnant womb of any living
creature, and he will discover an image of the heavens and earth. (att.
to Sethian Gnosis)